The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 362 On a Rainy Night
Sunday, April 3rd.

Since it is the weekend, or even more than just the weekend, because tomorrow is Qingming Festival and today happens to be the Qingming holiday, many people choose to go home during these days.

For example, Nan Xiang, although the nature of her current job means that she does not need to stick to legal holidays, but thinking that she has not been home since the New Year, and her boss mentioned this before, she thought it was a good opportunity to go home.

After that, you can wait to spend some time alone with your boss!
On the way home, Nan Xiang thought happily.

Unlike the previous two times when she went home for the New Year, when she had to deliberately dress simply, this time she kept her usual attire.

It is not known whether it was due to the influence of Gu Li in the past or because she herself has a tall figure, but Nan Xiang particularly loves long windbreakers. Except in the hot summer when she really cannot wear them, the closet in her room in Pudong is filled with windbreakers for spring, autumn and winter.

Trench coats are very body-conscious, and if not worn properly they will give people the feeling of a child wearing adult clothes. But at this moment, she was wearing a light apricot long trench coat, and she looked like a model on a seasonal fashion show.

"Da da da……"

A pair of beige round-toed high-heeled shoes stepped on the gray cement square bricks on the side of the old alley, making a crisp and rhythmic sound. The heels were not high, but they made the calf lines smooth. As she walked, the white dress was faintly visible under the hem of the windbreaker.

Nan Xiang raised her hand to check the time, revealing a minimalist rose gold watch on her wrist. Seeing that it was already late, she hesitated for a moment and gave up the idea of ​​buying some nutritional supplements.

The weather before Qingming Festival is gloomy, and it seems like a heavy rain will soon fall to create an atmosphere for tomorrow's festival.

Nan Xiang quickened her pace slightly, and the sound of her high heels tapping on the square bricks became more rapid. The fresh green of the spring parasol trees swayed above her head. No one could tell that this urban beauty who had become a part of the scenery was completely different from her appearance on the Internet.

Turning into the alley in the lane, the familiar walls and lanes stretch extremely long in my eyes. Now this path leading to the door of my house has become very clean. The street office has also paid more and more attention to the sanitation level of this old city area. After all, some young couples are tired of high-rise buildings, so they like to go into these old alleys and take photos from time to time and post them on social platforms to highlight their niche taste.

Well... in a few years this will be called citywalk. It's not completely popular yet, but at the street corner that Nan Xiang just passed, there were already a lot of young people gathered near a newly opened Starbucks, walking and taking pictures. The only thing was that there were few coffee cups in the trash can.

Walking all the way home, Nan Xiang saw that a lot of moss had grown on the cleaned wall next to her, but it no longer had the stinky ditch smell it once had. Instead, it formed a harmonious green with the flowers and plants that climbed over the wall.

What a pity! If there were no insects or ants, I could plant some flowers here.

Nan Xiang thought silently in her heart, but soon she put those sighing thoughts behind her when she reached the door of her home.

The door was ajar, and after the renovation in front of the door, it was no longer pitch black even on a cloudy day.

Nan Xiang exhaled lightly and pushed open the door to make the room brighter. The creaking sound of the iron door made her frown, and she kept the idea of ​​changing the door in mind.

There was no one in the main room, so Nan Xiang called out, "Mom!"

Still no response, a trace of worry immediately emerged in her heart.

One of the things that adults who work away from home fear the most is receiving a call from home in the middle of the night. People like Nan Xiang who rarely talk to their families fear the most that they will not be able to see their family members as soon as they get home.

The worry emerged from the bottom of her heart and immediately turned into a big hand that grabbed her neck, and she felt a faint feeling of suffocation.

"Mom! Are you home?"

The joy of returning home was gone at this moment. Nan Xiang started shouting and screaming. She searched her mother's room and the kitchen but couldn't find anyone. Finally, she pushed open the door of her own room.

"mom……"

Nan Xiang's cry got stuck in her throat. Seeing her mother lying on the familiar recliner behind the door, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mom! Mom!"

However, when she called out twice and found that her mother was lying on the recliner with her eyes closed and no movement, Nan Xiang's eyes widened and her heart began to rise again.

Nan Xiang took a slightly stiff step towards the recliner, and tremblingly stretched out her hand to push the other person: "Mom..."

"Hmm? Nannan..."

"..."

Nan Xiang stopped her finger in front of her mother and looked into her eyes.

"Nannan, you're back."

Nan's mother, who had just woken up, yawned, and after struggling to sit up, she saw her daughter's expression as if she had seen a ghost, and asked in confusion, "What happened to you?"

Nan Xiang's expression suddenly became extremely interesting. After a long while, she angrily said, "I just called you for a long time, why didn't you say anything? I was scared to death!"

"I was asleep and didn't hear it!" Nan's mother stood up and said.

"Why did you sleep here without locking the door? I thought...I thought there was a thief in the house."

"That's no big deal. There's nothing to steal in the room. This recliner is quite comfortable for napping. If mine can't hold anything, I'll put it in yours."

"No way?" Nan's mother added innocently.

Nan Xiang took a deep breath to adjust her mood, and forced a smile, saying, "Okay, you can sleep if you want."

Feeling somewhat puzzled, Nan's mother shook her head, walked out of the room and asked again, "Are you hungry? It's almost noon, I'll go cook for you."

"Okay." Nan Xiang nodded. When her mother turned and walked towards the kitchen, she let out a sigh of relief and lay down on the recliner.

Just now, when she saw her biological mother lying there motionless, the scenes of these years flashed through her mind like a kaleidoscope.

Even though her biological mother used to be a gambler, at this moment she still couldn't help feeling that her parents were no longer around to take care of her, especially since she had been hiding things from her biological mother for the past two years. Was she really going to have to hide it now?

Even when she was most panicking and stretching her fingers, Nan Xiang subconsciously thought of Jian Xi. At this moment, she just wanted her boss to be with her.

Fortunately it was a false alarm.

……

"Nannan, you seem to have become more beautiful this time when you came back?"

"..."

At lunch time, Nan's mother looked at her daughter carefully while eating, and then suddenly asked this question.

Nan Xiang stopped eating her chopsticks. This question seemed to be something she hadn't been able to look at before?

Although I didn’t dress up much when I went home before, I still put on some light makeup. Besides, don’t I look good without makeup?

When she was a campus goddess in school, she only needed to put on a little makeup to easily defeat those who wanted to compete for her position!

For girls in the new century, putting on makeup is something that is ingrained into their biological instincts. Some start putting on makeup in junior high school or high school, and some start in college. In fact, it is not only the ugly girls who put on makeup. Many girls who are good-looking without makeup also put on makeup, and they will even put on makeup if it is a negative enhancement for them.

Girls’ appearance anxiety is just like boys’...length anxiety, how many people can escape it?

Even Nan Xiang was very happy when she found that she had become more beautiful in the past two years. She didn't even need to guess why, she knew it was because of her boss.

Now hearing her own mother say this to her, Nan Xiang didn't know whether to complain or praise her for her good eyesight.

"Isn't that what I look like?"

"wrong."

Nan's mother shook her head. Looking at the way her daughter was dressed when she came back today, she actually wanted to ask her daughter if she was making a lot of money at work now. Her style and temperament were completely different from before the New Year!

But she felt that asking this question would easily lead to misunderstanding by her daughter, so Nan's mother thought for a moment and asked, "Nannan, are you dating someone?"

"..."

Nan Xiang was stunned again. Her mother had asked her this question during the Chinese New Year, but she had firmly denied it at that time.

I thought the matter was over, but my mother brought it up again.

"No, you think too much." Facing her mother's inquiring eyes, Nan Xiang shook her head and denied it again, "I have so many things to do now, how can I have time to date?"

It’s different with the boss, it’s both work and love life.

"I don't believe it." Nan's mother put a piece of meat in her bowl, "I felt that you were already dating during the Chinese New Year."

"Believe it or not." Nan Xiang said retortively.

Nan's mother didn't say anything after hearing this. After taking a bite of the food, she said, "I won't say much if you have a boyfriend. I just want you to open your eyes and don't say that before..." When she said this, Nan Xiang frowned. Nan's mother didn't want to talk about it anymore, so she said, "Besides, you are already 24 this year. It's time for you to think about your lifelong affairs."

Nan Xiang didn't want to respond, so she continued to eat in silence. She felt that her current situation was fine, but it would not be good if she told her mother about it.

At least not now.

After all, this is not a simple lover relationship. The other party is the boyfriend of the best friend, and this best friend’s biological mother also knows her.

This... is at least a little flawed on a moral level.

When Nan Xiang thought of this, she immediately thought of what happened two nights ago, and her face started to blush while she was eating.

I never expected that I would sleep naked until late at night, and soon after I fell asleep, it was not only Jian Xi who came to wait for me, but also Lin Xiao!
How was that embarrassing situation different from being caught cheating?
It was fine to be naughty in front of her boss when she was alone, after all, she was more or less used to it, and she even found it exciting. She stopped pretending and liked to take off her clothes in front of Jian Xi when they were alone!

But in front of her bestie, she can be a goddess, she can be a bitch, but she is never... a bitch!
This new stimulation was still too much for her.

She was in a state of confusion as to whether to move or not, and in the end she could only let him do what he wanted.

But after that night, another thought came to Nan Xiang's mind. Could it be that when Lin Xiao, Lin Quan and Jian Xi lived together, they were always...

No wonder the boss rarely comes to spend the night with her...

"Nannan, why are you blushing?"

"Ah?" Nan Xiang came back to her senses and saw her mother staring at her suspiciously. She quickly said, "It's spicy, spicy."

"..."

Nan's mother looked down at the dish without a single pepper and fell into deep thought. After a few seconds, she sighed and said, "I told you to think carefully about your lifelong affairs. The neighborhood office arranged a community cleaning job for me some time ago. I got up early to work today and fell asleep on the recliner. I can't help you with anything now, but I hope you can marry a good man in the future..."

Nan Xiang's mother muttered a long paragraph in a low voice, which made Nan Xiang's nose sore and her eyes red. When she opened her mouth to say something, she heard her mother say again:
"But your job... uh..." Nan's mother hesitated, but finally asked directly, "Are you still... accompanying... drinking?"

"..."

Nan Xiang, who was almost moved to tears, held back her tears and bit the chopsticks in her mouth tightly.

When she looked up and saw her mother looking at her with eyes that were both concerned and worried, Nan Xiang felt like vomiting blood.

In order to stimulate her mother to stop gambling, she directly said that the money the other party earned at the gambling table was earned by her as a drinking companion. Unexpectedly, the other party actually thought that she was still doing this.

"Mom, I haven't done this kind of thing for a long time!" Nan Xiang put down her chopsticks and said unhappily.

"Oh, that's good, that's good." Nan's mother nodded, but there was still doubt in her eyes, "Then your clothes and watches are not cheap, they are..."

"Can't I make money besides being a drinking companion?!" Nan Xiang said angrily, "I have another job now."

"what is that?"

"..." Nan Xiang was silent. She didn't want to talk about her job. Not to mention that it was embarrassing to let her mother see her image on the Internet, this profession was still relatively new. She didn't know how to explain it. Moreover, there were indeed many people in the same profession who had... problems.

The only person she wants to accompany is her boss!

Then she noticed that her mother's eyes started to become strange again.

"It's not what you think anyway!"

An indescribable feeling gathered in her chest. Nan Xiang was so angry that she picked up the bowl and ran back to her room to eat. As for throwing the chopsticks and refusing to eat, that was not the case.

Seeing this, Nan's mother quickly got up and knocked on her door and shouted, "Nannan, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean anything."

"Nannan, don't think too much."

"Come out and eat!"

……

As soon as they returned home, a conflict of not so small broke out between the mother and daughter. Perhaps it could not be called a conflict, but this misunderstanding lay between them, and there would always be some awkwardness from time to time.

In the afternoon, the cloudy sky in Shanghai finally began to drizzle, which embodied the scene of heavy rain during the Qingming Festival.

And as it approached evening, the rain got heavier and heavier, and the drizzle turned into a downpour, similar to the heavy rain when Yiping asked her father for money.

Nan Xiang, who had just changed her clothes and was holding her phone, thinking about how to harass her boss, couldn't help but ask when she saw her mother holding an umbrella and about to go out, "Mom, it's raining so hard and it's almost dark, what are you doing going out?"

"Buy groceries. We have run out of food at home."

Nan's mother looked at the rain, picked up a pair of rain boots and said.

Nan Xiang frowned and said, "It's raining too hard. Let's go when it's a little lighter."

"If it's any later, the market will be closed."

Seeing that her mother was determined to go, Nan Xiang stood up and took an umbrella and said, "Then I'll go with you. It's hard to carry vegetables in such heavy rain."

"Just wait at home. It's only a few steps away." Nan's mother refused directly.

But Nan Xiang was already standing at the door: "Okay, I'll go with you and come back early to buy groceries."

Seeing this, Nan's mother looked her up and down and said, "Then you wear my rain boots. We only have one pair at home."

"Oh, it's okay. I've changed into high heels and don't need rain boots. I can just wash my feet when I come back." Nan Xiang went out first with an umbrella, looking at her mother and said, "Hurry up, it will be dark soon."

Nan's mother hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed. She locked the door and went out with her daughter to buy groceries.

As expected, by the time they finished buying groceries and walked back, it was already dark.

Fortunately, Nan Xiang came along, otherwise it would have taken Nan's mother a long time to carry all the vegetables and meat back in the rain.

"Mom, do you want to move with me?"

On the way back, Nan Xiang, who was walking in front of her mother, suddenly asked this.

"Moving?" Nan's mother raised her umbrella slightly and looked at her daughter's back. Her lips moved but she couldn't speak.

Her daughter's financial situation has become a mystery in her heart.

"Don't worry about the money. Under normal circumstances, it's enough for us to spend, as long as..." I don't know if it was because of the heavy rain, but Nan Xiang's next words were drowned out. Or maybe she didn't say the rest of the words just to maintain the hard-earned harmony and warmth between mother and daughter.

As long as you don't gamble, money is not a problem.

Nan Xiang muttered silently in her heart.

Nan's mother, who was following behind, frowned. When they were almost at the entrance of the alley, she finally couldn't help but said, "Nannan, tell me the truth, are you..."

Before she could finish her words, Nan's mother's umbrella hit Nan Xiang's sadness, and her new coat was instantly wet again.

"Why did you stop suddenly? You need to go back and take a shower and change clothes." Nan's mother's voice was slightly anxious. Seeing her daughter standing still, she hurried to Nan Xiang's side and said, "What's wrong with you? It's raining so hard and you're so wet. Why don't you walk faster?"

Nan Xiang stood there with an umbrella in one hand and a plastic bag full of vegetables in the other. She seemed not to hear what her mother said, and just stared blankly at the "old acquaintance" in front of her who was drenched in the heavy rain.

"Nanxiang, long time no see." Xi Cheng, who was soaked by the rain and whose hair stuck to his scalp as if he was about to dance, said.

"Why did you ignore the message I sent? I spent so much money on you!" Xi Cheng raised his voice.

……

At the corner of the street in the distance, an Audi RS7 tore through the rain curtain, turned off the lights and drove over.

"I'm here, let your people withdraw."

In the driver's seat, the man whispered into the phone.

(End of this chapter)